We are seeking an experienced Clinical Psychologist to lead our Paediatric Service, providing leadership, development, management, and clinical expertise to our paediatric team.

• Provide highly developed specialist psychological assessments of patients referred to the service, based on the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of complex data from various sources.
• Formulate plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of patients' psychological needs, based on an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients' problems.
• Implement a range of highly specialized psychological interventions for patients, carers, families, and groups, employed individually and in synthesis.
• Exercise full responsibility and autonomy for the treatment of and discharge from the psychological service, ensuring appropriate assessment, formulation, and interventions.
• Provide expertise and highly specialist psychological advice, guidance, and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients' formulation, diagnosis, and treatment plan.
• Ensure that all members of the clinical team have access to a psychologically based framework for the understanding and care of paediatric patients, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological knowledge, research, and theory.
• Undertake risk assessment and risk management for relevant individual patients and provide both general and specialist advice for other professionals on psychological and neuropsychological aspects of risk assessment and management.
• Act as care co-ordinator, where appropriate, ensuring the provision of a care package appropriate for the patients' needs, co-ordinating the work of others involved with care, arranging patients' care reviews as required, and communicating effectively with the patient, his/her family, and all others involved in care.

Experience

• Extensive experience of working within child and adolescent settings.
• Experience of working with physical health settings.
• Experience of working in MDT.
• Experience of supervising psychologists and other team members.
• Experience of service development.

Qualifications

• Doctorate in Clinical Psychology or equivalent.
• HCPC registered.